Dillenlus. 179 
When we conlider the mlnutenefs of the 
objeits of his inveftigation, the accuracy of 
his defcriptions, the critical examination 
and nice difcrimination of each fpecies, the 
labour and the author has exhibited in 
the feledlion of the fynonyma, and the dif- 
pofition of them into chronological order, 
which is a highly meritorious part of the 
plan, The Hiftory of Mojes'' muft be 
confidered as a very extraordinary perform- 
ance : and/ notwithftanding any fubfequent 
improvements in the arrangement of fpecies^ 
or in the reduction of them in confequence 
of more perfed: obfervations, or even in the 
microfcopical dsfcoveries of He D wig re- 
fpefling the GenerUy Dillenius's work 
muft long be the bafis of knowledge in this 
part of nature, and muft remain with pof- 
terity as an almoft unexampled inftance of 
patience, ingenuity, and fcience, in the au- 
thor. This work, moreover, poffeffes a fu- 
periority over every other botanical publica- 
^11, the Memoir es couronnh en Vannee 17865 parV Academls 
des Sciences^ Belles Lettres et Arts de Lyons^fur rUtilite dei 
JLkhms dans la Medicine et dam les Arts^ par M, M. Hoff- 
man, Amoreux/A, W1LLEMET3 1787. 8". 
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